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University of California - Los Angeles Doctorate in Legal Professions

Legal Professions is a program of study at University of California - Los Angeles. The school offers a doctor’s degree in the area. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the doctor’s degree program in legal professions, including how many students graduate each year, the ethnic diversity of these students, whether or not the degree is offered online, and more.

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• Graduate Cost
• Online Learning
• Student Diversity
• Focus Areas
• References

How Much Does a Doctorate in Legal Professions from UCLA Cost?

UCLA Graduate Tuition and Fees

The average full-time tuition and fees for graduate students are shown in the table below.

	In State	Out of State
Tuition	$11,442	$26,544
Fees	$1,587	$1,587

Does UCLA Offer an Online Doctorate in Legal Professions?

UCLA does not offer an online option for its legal professions doctor’s degree program at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the UCLA Online Learning page.

UCLA Doctorate Student Diversity for Legal Professions

During the 2019-2020 academic year, there were 313 doctor’s degrees in legal professions handed out to qualified students. The charts and tables below give more information about these students.

Male-to-Female Ratio

Of the students who received their doctor’s degree in legal professions in 2019-2020, 47.9% of them were women. This is less than the nationwide number of 52.5%.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

Around 28.4% of legal professions doctor’s degree recipients at UCLA in 2019-2020 were awarded to racial-ethnic minorities*. This is about the same as the nationwide number of 30%.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	42
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	31
Native American or Alaska Native	2
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	0
White	185
International Students	9
Other Races/Ethnicities	36

Doctorate in Legal Professions Focus Areas at UCLA

Legal Professions students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.

Focus Area	Annual Graduates
Law	312
Legal Research	1

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online

More about our data sources and methodologies.